dialectologicaladj.
/ˌdʌɪəlɛktəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌdaɪəlɛktəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/ Linguistics.
Of or relating to dialectology.
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word-geographical1950
1850 J. L. Krapf Vocab. Six E. Afr. Langs. p. iv But besides the aid which the Author received from his dialectological researches for the furtherance of his Suaheli studies, he had still an other weighty motive.
1879 J. A. H. Murray in Trans. Philol. Soc. 592 A dialectological introduction.
1926 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. July 409 The demarcation line between the west and the east of Persia, in this dialectological sense, apparently may be drawn from the south-east corner of the Caspian.
1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) v. 132 Any study, agricultural, ethnographic or dialectological, of Yemen's mountains would have to use a three-dimensional projection to map these variations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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